The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 – Somasegar announces the release of Update 1 for Visual Studio 2013
• VS 2013.1 (Update 1) is available – Brian Harry also shares the news of the release and provides links to the release notes and various components of the update
• Announcing the Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1 – Daniel Roth announces the release of NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1, providing links to further details of all the new features included in this release.
• January 2014 Cumulative Update for SQL Server 2008 SP3 & SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update #8 is available! – Aaron Bertrand highlights the release of updates for SQL Server 2008 and 2012
• ReSharper 8.1.1 Goes EAP: More TypeScript Support + Fixes – The team at JetBrains announce the opening of the Early Access Programme for ReSharper 8.1.1, a maintenance release which brings improvements to unit testing, command line tools and TypeScript support.

Information

• Support for package.json in Azure Mobile Services – Hasan Khan highlights the new support for packages.json in Windows Azure Mobile Services, allowing packages to be automatically installed.
• Image workflow using Web Essentials 2013 – Mads Kristensen shares a video where he walks through all the ways of working with images, along with the other new features in the 1.7 release of Web Essentials 2013
• Measuring all the things with Azure Web Sites and friends – Troy Hunt discusses the wealth of information that Windows Azure exposes about your application in operation
• Diagnosing issues with reversible data transformations – Jon Skeet shares some tips for diagnosing problems of a common class regarding data transmission and encoding
• Implementing ASP.NET Identity – K. Scott Allen continues with his series looking at ASP.NET Identity and looks at the interfaces for implementing custom storage of user information.

Community

• Windows Azure week virtual training – Laurent Duveau highlights next week’s Windows Azure Week events where you can get free Azure training delivered virtually, covering all aspects of Azure.

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